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Suggestions that a 30-hour week law, to be effective, must contain a minimum wage scale to prevent proportionate pay cuts collided with this stubborn fact: once the District of Columbia had a minimum wage law which in 1923 the Supreme Court annulled on the ground that it violated a citizen's constitutional privilege to contract for his own services at his own price...
...Pole was clearly ready for a knockout. Ready to supply it, Schaaf rushed out of his corner in the sixth, battered Poreda's head with left hooks, then landed one more smashing right. This time Poreda stayed down for nine full seconds. When he lurched up, still stubborn enough to be smashed once more, Referee Arthur Donovan stepped in front of him, awarded the fight to Schaaf...
Hating some Englishmen and fearing no man, stubborn, elderly Premier James Barry Munnik Hertzog of the Union of South Africa has battled mightily to keep his dominion on the gold standard. All other dominions and the Mother Country are off. Ever since sterling slipped, English economists have been favoring South Africa with advice and appeals to "link your pound with sterling." Because Premier Hertzog is Dutch-blooded, Englishmen started a limerick in London which has spread to Capetown...
Roosevelt champions, on the other hand, thought that President Hoover, stubborn of opinion, was trying to jockey Governor Roosevelt into line with his own foreign program just as he had jockeyed Congress to support his 1931 debt moratorium. Dark Democratic hints were broadcast to the effect that Wall Street, repudiated in the election, was trying to get an advance grip, through President Hoover, on the next administration's foreign policy. Why, asked Democrats, among themselves, did not President Hoover offer to turn power as well as responsibility over to the President-elect if he was so anxious for cooperation...
...against Georgia with a claim to its first Southern Conference Championship that will probably be substantiated by the Auburn-South Carolina game this week. Navy got only four first downs to Notre Dame's 20, rushed 71 yd. to Notre Dame's 282 but it was so stubborn near its own goal line that two Notre Dame teams were lucky to grind out two touchdowns at Cleveland, 12-to-0. Pitt found Carnegie Tech a touchdown harder than Notre Dame, a touchdown easier than Nebraska, 6-to-0 in a sooty Pittsburgh snowstorm. Coach Ike Armstrong...